Visual Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Visual Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Stencil in the centre of Athens10
A photographic essay on socio-economic organisation – temporary shelters in Kelowna, British Columbia (Canada)8
Ephemeral literacies: reflecting on the impermanence of maize reading divination7
Photography and reality. Reflections around the role of the photographer among photo students in Russia and Sweden7
Images among images: a map scholar response7
The Astronomer's Chair: A Visual and Cultural History7
The faces of Auschwitz: digital colourisation, ethics and the archive6
On AI colourisation: algorithms, ancestry, and colour beyond the black box6
Naked modernisation: the rise and fall of the erotic humour magazines in 1930s Turkey5
Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color5
New species in the Mediterranean: a visual essay on human impact on biodiversity5
No heritage found on map: the vanishing villages of Hong Kong4
Tracking transitions: an ethnographic visual study of the manual sand miners in Bihar, India4
Design cards as visual interventions: visualising and visioning net zero futures4
The patchwork method: on David Redmon and Ashley Sabin4
Dolors project: art-based polyethnography evoking contemporary rural mothering through photography, dance and chapbooks4
Facilitating Black identity and advocacy: creating cellphilms for reflecting on issues affecting Black students3
Living in post-Brexit Britain during the pandemic: how did it feel for EU citizens?3
Using cellphilm-making as advocacy: adolescent girls’ access to reproductive health services in primary health care facilities in rural northern KwaZulu-Natal3
Elaborated images as decolonial praxis3
Prosody: an ode to the city3
Elements of a riot: forms of political violence in contemporary France3
Editorial3
Bounding an archiving: assessing the relative completeness of the Jacques Toussele archive using pattern-matching and face-recognition3
The distinctive reality of schizophrenia in Swallow Me Whole and HOAX Psychosis Blues : exploring comics and their narrative space3
Howard S. Becker and visual sociology3
Being specific about ‘digital images’3
Copyright as an ethical dimension of visual research: preserving ownership across the research process3
Romaphobia and mainstreaming of nativism: visual representations of Roma during the Brexit referendum in the UK3
Gentrification and changing visual landscapes: a Google Street View analysis of residential upgrading and class aesthetics in Hamilton’s Lower City3
Future City, 20213
Dressing and undressing Duchamp3
Rebel imaginings: street art in Yogyakarta, Indonesia3
Creating counter-landscapes: art-based research in two logistics parks in Frankfurt am Main and Kassel (Germany)3
Pygmalion in the archive: the mythic desires of colourisation3
Survival and social support networks: visual narratives of labour market integration among highly skilled African immigrants in Quebec3
Neither spectacular nor ordinary: a visual essay on imaginations and homes in Beijing from 2007 to 20193
In light of #MeToo: reconsidering the art/artist relationship for better futures3
Black modernisms in the transatlantic world3
Social semiotic analysis of photographic portrayals of Iranian elders on websites2
Spaces in between: using the Zwischenraum to explore the archiving practices of young expats in Berlin2
The social life of private thoughts2
A critical assessment of the Russian-language literature in the field of visual culture2
Graphic journeys: virtual dark tourism in Joe Sacco’s Palestine and Footnotes in Gaza2
Unfolding the entangled geosemiotics of technologically-mediated gated communities:Mountain View’s (2021) advertisement as a case study2
When the cannons roar, comics panels fall silent: on silent representations of traumatic events in Israeli comics and graphic novels2
Earthquakes, communities and heritage: Telling stories of resilience through co-designed immersive media2
Looking at Laurie; reconsidering an image of ‘madness’2
Home is where it happens: a visual essay on pandemic parenting for employed mothers2
Difficulties with diversity: reflections on representation in sandboxing studies2
Visualizing entrenched historical trauma and inherited fear: a linguistic and semiotic landscape account of Jakarta’s traditional Chinatown Glodok2
Editorial2
Reimagining food systems and food futures: a visual approach2
Imagining the city2
Cross-cultural visual communication at the Wanchin Church in Taiwan2
‘Breaking the chains’: reflections on the making of an ethnographic documentary on human rights violations against people with mental illness in Indonesia2
A visual essay of everyday life at the Finnish-Russian border after (and before?) the Iron Curtain2
Political storytelling of Ekrem İmamoğlu on Instagram during 2019 Istanbul mayoral elections in Turkey2
Wake up, this is Joburg2
Editorial2
Editorial2
Dirty pictures1
Reading Reisewitz’s Altamira: An Analytical and Evocative Photo-Study Altamira1
Corona de Flores; some visual issues of coronavirus1
Visual arts: imagining ashanzhaicity in twenty-first century China1
#EverydayNile Correspondences1
A study of transgender: in the reflection of historical context and contemporary artistic expressions of Lahore, Pakistan1
Coming off fossil fuels: Visual recollection of fossil fuel dependency1
Juxtaposition and visualising the middle ground in the unequal city1
Gazing through the window: A participatory Covid-19-exhibition for a nation in crisis1
‘Let us teach our children’: Online racism and everyday far-right ideologies on TikTok1
The whiteboard: visualising personal agency in a lockdown microcosm1
The image is a cure1
The coloniality beneath the aesthetics: a study on the reclining female schema in modern Chinese photography1
Building culture: constructing visual continuity in Hangzhou before G201
Finding the local (meta)picture1
Embodying parkour’s visual subculture: ethos, style and the emergence of a visual habitus1
‘There were days I felt empty’: care, affect, and graphic medicine1
Where are the students?1
Rethinking fashion photography: reconstructing identities, decolonising bodies and resistance in postcolonial Morocco1
Introduction: Visibility, images, Palestine/Israel1
Editorial1
Methodology for a comparative quantitative analysis of film colour: a comparison between Cannes and box-office results1
The baggage of representation: man with a red carrier bag searching for a signal1
Macao and Hengqin on China’s southern coast: aesthetic reading of infrastructural materiality and island integration1
‘It’s all about connecting’: using visual methods to surface the multisensory and more-than-human dimensions of health information1
Everything to Play For: How videogames are changing the world1
Sounding of the idols. Visual deception and religious images in Brazil1
Emoji and social media paralanguage1
Critical visual approaches to understand the complexities and contradictions of the city: introduction to the special issue for Visual Studies1
Empty homes: filming homeownership in rapidly urbanising China1
The 360 diary method in experiential education: using social media as a complementary method to interviews and audio diaries1
Remembering Rob Boonzajer Flaes1
Affective atmospheres in Macau: from the sublime to the uncanny1
Co-producing place narratives: participatory visual storytelling through the lens of youth1
Other Lines: visualising shifting horizons and atmospheric pollution along the Wirral Peninsula1
The time of the landscape: On the origins of the aesthetic revolution1
The business of postcolonial immigration: marketing of immigration services in Punjab, India1
Moving boundaries: visual sociology meets border studies1
What is an image in the digital age?1
Decoding visual culture1
Decoding the symbolic storm fuelling Greek far-right politics: a visual essay1
Bridging memories: training the imagination to go visiting in Israel/Palestine1
Embracing new paths in visual research facilitation: opportunities, tensions & ethical considerations1
Embodying Art – How We See, Think, Feel, and Create1
From pages to posts: the evolution of memory-making from scrapbooking to Instagram1
Topologies of air1
The hidden messages concealed in the 1970s stamp series ‘Landscapes of Israel’1
Short videos as affective contagion: (Un)locked WeChat chatlogs on viral videos0
A change of luck: the comics scholarship of Hillary Chute0
Correction0
Visibilising gentrification-induced displacement: a visual essay on the role of a socially and politically engaged photographic practice in housing activism0
Past caring: archive, affect, and whiteness in digital colourisation0
Editorial0
‘Undressing the Icon/Visualizing the habitus.’ Series 1: Jean-François Clervoy (ESA/NASA)0
Participating and observing: Howie up close0
Untitled (Maestra) 20220
Addressing corruption through visual tools in India: the case of three civil society initiatives and their Facebook pages0
The spectacle of the Chinese city: urban atmospheres, the built environment and everyday practices0
Images of Childhood: A Visual History from Stone to Screen0
Citizens’ photography: a comparative analysis0
Metaphoric visual expressions in African art: an iconographical analysis of selected artworks by contemporary visual artists0
From making visible to hiding. Visual representations of financial markets as tools of manipulation and active and living agents0
Seemingly innocent pictures. Visual representations of migrants and refugees circulating through the Czech Facebook nationalistic universe0
Homes that house precarity: a visual essay on capturing an eco-dystopian reality0
Creative endings: visual cultures, generative AI & machinic intuitions0
COVID diaries: quotidian snapshots of life during the pandemic0
Colourised histories, reading digital/analogue photography and film archives now0
The Aesthetics of Global Protest; Global Activism and Art and Conflict in the 21st Century0
Theoretical, methodological, and ethical proposal to produce critical-liberating cinema: a Freirean perspective0
Visual Studies X The Open Eye Gallery: interview with Open Eye Director Sarah Fisher and Curator Mariama Attah0
Editors’ introduction0
Notions of the visible and the invisible: visualising the otherness of women with invisible (gynaecological) illness0
Human Flow: Stories from the Global Refugee Crisis and How Media and Conflicts Make Migrants0
Non-literary fiction: Art of the Americas under neoliberalism0
The body of prison power0
Ring this bell if you want to save our planet0
Altered spaces: new ways of seeing and envisioning nature with Minecraft0
Interweaving artist-researcher-teacher identities: facilitating visitor-artwork interactions0
The burden of the present in Gareth Brookes, The Dancing Plague0
Resilient rebound: a visual essay on materials science researchers confronting plastic pollution in the post-COVID-19 era0
Svalbard Railway (Rachel Tanur 2022 1st Prize)0
The photography of José Gómez de la Carrera and the construction of the territorial image of the early Republic of Cuba0
Seeing a pandemic: how COVID changed urban spaces and places0
If_I_Had_Let_Me, 20220
Nervous systems: Art, systems, and politics since the 1960s0
The spectacle of demonstration: visual representation of political imagination during the coronavirus crisis0
The Black Geographic: Praxis, Resistance, Futurity0
The Persian painting and the Iranian Traditional Medicine0
The place of poetics within documentary filmmaking: The art of fact0
Border tunnels: a media theory of the U.S.-Mexico underground0
Camouflaging colonialism: a case study of a NeoColonial Museum0
What is an Image? Artists’ panel transcription, International Visual Sociology Association annual conference, 16 September 20220
Correction0
Documentary photography as vocation: reflecting on Frank Cancian’s contribution to visual studies0
Oak tree, gum tree: screen collaborations across time zones, 20220
Does she still recognise you?0
Collaboratively videoing mobile activities0
Facilitating a ‘virtual space’ for social change during the COVID-19 pandemic: working with high-risk population using an arts-informed method0
Parallel public: experimental art in late east Germany0
Life in the Tapajós National Forest: a harmonious blend of culture and nature0
Unnatural nature – visual, spatial, and temporal contexts controlling our air0
We Know It When We See It0
Sonic signatures: Music, migration and the city at night0
Framing urbanities: invisible/visible urban assemblages0
Walker Evans: No politics0
The media swirl: Politics, audiovisuality, and aesthetics0
Degenerate ecocinema: indexing entropy with drones0
Understanding social critique in graffiti art from a (non-)Western perspective: Chinese students comparing Banksy and Zato through photo-elicitation0
Multisensory approaches in migration research: reflections and pathways0
Masks and emotional distance: a visual study of human relationships in the Covid-19 pandemic0
A study of light pollution discourse in Hong Kong0
Remembering Howie0
Coral empire: underwater oceans, colonial tropics, visual modernity0
Familia, 20180
The crisis of ugliness: From cubism to pop-art0
Guest Editors’ introduction0
Virtual identity construction in translanguaging spaces: unveiling the semiotic power of emojis in Lil Miquela 's Instagram posts0
Painting in the 1980s: Reimagining the medium0
Visual Sociology 2nd Edition Douglas Harper and Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to Researching with Visual Materials 5th Edition Gillian Rose0
The influence of Russian religious aesthetics on Russian animation0
Editors' introduction0
The techno-politics of programming vision0
States of Australia’s agri-environment: visual extractions from degraded landscapes0
Para/texts for the movie Archie’s Final Project: navigating stigma and profit imperatives to discuss suicide and human connections0
Spirit in film: the work of James Ault0
Will I ever be good enough?0
Home office: the places where we worked - a directive sent out to friends, friends-of-friends, and colleagues - March/April 20200
Organic futurism: sedimented pasts, speculative futures in the shadow of catastrophe0
What can voice do? Combining narrative methods and participant-produced photography to explore contemporary cancer survivorship0
Performativity and intersemiotic translation in contemporary art: the case of Hong Kong Atlas0
Outline of an interdisciplinary method: from counter-visual ethnography to tracing0
That venerable old temple, 20220
Urban research in film using walking tours and psychogeographic approaches0
What is an inclusive city? Reconfiguring participation in planning with geospatial photovoice to unpack experiences of urban belonging among marginalised communities0
Chornobyl visual lexicon: exploring the visual framing of toxic heritage from the point of view of participatory culture0
Social Fabric: Art and Activism in Contemporary Brazil0
The presence and perceptibility of personal digital data: findings from a participant map drawing method0
Hollywood, McDonald’s and Black Lives Matter: the decrepit face of the American dream0
In/human hues: colourisation between photography and film0
Using visual technology in educational ethnography: Theory, method and the visual0
Crisis vision: Race and the cultural production of surveillance0
Editorial0
Remote justice: a visual essay on the response of the Dutch justice system to the COVID-19 pandemic0
Building internal reputation in stigmatised neighbourhoods: the use of remote participatory photo mapping0
Three stories of one truth? Visual framing of AP, CNN & FOX news Instagram coverage of the 2020 US presidential candidates0
Thinking with Sarah Kaufman’s Devil’s Pool0
‘What do we see when we look at people on the move’? A visual intervention into civil sphere and symbolic boundary theory0
‘All the good spots are already taken’: the visual properties of interior social sceneries0
A beautiful ghetto0
Infertilities: A Curation0
Self-portrait in the photo booth: self-representation in the selfie era, a Photo-based Educational Research Project0
Visualizing Empire. Africa, Europe, and the politics of representation0
Review of Visual and Multimodal Urban Sociology0
Fabricating Lureland: A history of the imagination and memory of Peacehaven, a speculative interwar garden city development by the sea0
Beyond the visuality of Western architecture. The Chinese home from inward haven to outward representation0
Signs of change: community, collective action, and gentrification in Brooklyn, New York0
Story Poles (Solana Beach, California), 20210
Mortevivum: photography and the politics of the visual0
Engaging young people in architectural research: three visual methods for understanding the impact of the built environment on children’s wellbeing0
Breathing aesthetics0
From bricoleur to carver – A methodological provocation from video ethnographic inquiry0
A feminist rewriting of cartoon captions0
Visuality and Parrēsia : Ai Weiwei’s countervisual re-enactment of Alan Kurdi’s image0
Caution, Police!0
Lost places: mental images as an expanded form of visuality in Chile's popular revolt0
Shaping Roman Landscape: Ecocritical Approaches to Architecture and Wall Painting in Early Imperial Italy0
Film ethnography and critical consciousness: exploring a community-based action research methodology for Freirean transformation0
Palestine time: Liu Xiaodong’s In Between Israel and Palestine (April 2013)0
Professionalism, privilege and publicity: representations of development cooperation in amateur photography and Finnish newspapers, 1968–19720
Shooting occupation: the sociology of visual representation0
The ‘how’ of anthropology: participant observation in New Guinea and Newfoundland0
Heir to the throne: photography and the rise to presidency by politicians in Zimbabwe and South Africa0
Guest Editors’ introduction0
Interconnectedness, place and growth: a visual essay on transformative learning0
The human shutter: photographs, stereoscopic depth, and moving images0
Revisiting the Kahn collection: multimodal artificial intelligence and visual patterns of presence and absence in the Archives de la Planète , 1909–19310
Shifting perspectives: exploring the intersection of traditional and digital photography in contemporary artistic practices0
Waste Not Want Not : art, recycling and community building in a Johannesburg creative collaboration0
Warao queen: challenging beauty in Venezuela – the Rachel Tanur Memorial Prize for Visual Sociology 20200
The Routledge companion to art and disability0
Smoothness, beauty, and persuasion in Chinese political visual culture0
Visual reciprocity and #vanlife in the visual commons: Vancouver Island is a VW bus0
Kodachrome and the fantasy of colourisation or what time is there?0
From canvas to cyberspace: contemporary Tibetan art and the digital Tibetan identity landscape0
A sad tree: visualising ecological emotions through bodies in place0
Pictures of Longing: Photography and the Norwegian-American Migration0
Polka - Using the Camera as a Research Instrument0
Seeing South Asia: visuals beyond borders0
Visualising gendered space and informality: a photo essay0
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